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A language that hasn’t been spoken for more than 1,000 years is being taught this semester at the University of Toronto, a step perhaps towards decoding rarely understood excerpts of history. The ...

Addis Abeba — In recent years, there has been a growing push to introduce Ge'ez as a language subject in schools across the Amhara Regional State. This initiative has gained particular momentum after ...

The Ge’ez script (also known as fidel) has a two thousand year history in the East African highlands and the Red Sea region. It lives on as the writing system for several modern African languages, ...

University of Toronto launches a course in 2,000-year-old Ge’ez, part of its Ethiopian studies program—aided by a star Giving back: The Weeknd, whose parents emigrated from Ethiopia, donated $50,000 ...

How does someone teach a language when we have no idea what it might actually sound like? That’s one of the questions for U of T’s Robert Holmsted, who’s teaching the university’s course on the ...

It is interesting to compare Ge’ez Grammar with those of traditional Ethiopian Grammars lexica. Similarities or differences deserve due attention as far as the structure and the content of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity. During ...

A new range of mobile phones has just gone on sale in Ethiopia, with the onscreen menu in Amharic, and the ability to send SMS text messages in the Ge'ez script - used for Amharic and other languages ...

Addis Abeba — Members of the Kebena community in the Kebena Woreda of the Gurage zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's (SNNP) regional said they are about to switch the use of ...